ISIS In Gaza

"In response to the rocket attacks that hit Israel earlier this evening and in order to prevent further attacks on Israeli civilians, an IAF aircraft targeted three terror activity sites and three concealed rocket launchers in the southern Gaza Strip, a weapon manufacturing site in the northern Gaza Strip and a terror activity site and weapon manufacturing site in the central Gaza Strip."
Israeli Armed Forces statement

"Militants, like Hassumi and Fatzih, attacking Israel from Gaza, are not safe, do not have immunity, and will not be free to plan, plot and operate."
"We will continue to strike the instigators and agitators with patience, determination and precision. Gaza rocket terrorism does not pay."
Lt.-Col Peter Lerner, IDF spokesman

Palestinians gather around a car that was targeted by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on June 27, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP / MOHAMMED ABED)

Over the past weekend a dozen rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. Over the past two weeks 25 rockets hit Israel. The IDF issued a statement advising that "Approximately 50 rockets were launched at Israel over the past two weeks."

ISIS soldiers in convoy in confiscated trucks in Iraq. Photo: Twitter / nayelshafei.

In Gaza, the funeral of one of two members of a terrorist group took place. They were targeted by the IDF and killed as having been responsible for volleys of rockets fired into Israel over the last two weeks; men who belonged to the "Salah e-Din Brigades" of the Popular Front. And whom Israel suspects of being joined to ISIS.

On Friday, Israel Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon stated that it is the duty and the intention that the IDF foil "rocket fire on Israel or attempted attacks on our civilians or troops. We will hunt down those who carry out or plan [these attacks], like we did today."


For its part Hamas "categorically denied Egyptian security claims that ISIS terrorists infiltrated Sinai through Gaza tunnels". A spokesman for Hamas, Iyad Bazam, characterized the Egyptian claims as "blatant lies", asserting they represented "part of the ongoing Egyptian smear campaign against the Gaza Strip."

Belying the denials, mourners in Gaza carried the black flags of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Islamists at the Sunday funeral for one of the two terrorists killed in a targeted airstrike on Friday. Intelligence analysts feel this to be the first open sign of local support for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, now known as the Islamic State since its declaration of its caliphate in a swath crossing the borders of Iraq and Syria.

Intelligence sources both abroad and within Israel have warned the brutalizing Islamist influence is on the spread and they are likely indeed endowed with support from among Sinai's Bedouin Salafists, where al-Qaeda-affiliated militias and Hamas itself have all conspired along with the Muslim Brotherhood to spread terror and ravage Egyptian security forces there.

They have simply continued to spread their influence now into Gaza as well.

Osama Hassumi, 29, and Mohammad Fatzih, 24, were hit with a direct missile strike as they travelled together in a vehicle along the Gazan shore. The Israeli Air Force, skilled in eliminating threats to the survival of Israel and its population, have a job to do and they do it exceedingly well.